CRUSADES?????

By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer Sun Mar 30, 2:48 PM ET

VATICAN CITY - Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.

For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us," Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican's yearbook.

He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
"It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer," the monsignor said.

WHILE IT'S TRUE THAT CHRISTIANS COMBINED ADD UP TO 33% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION.... I'M THINKING THAT A SMALL CRUSADE MIGHT BE NEEDED.

OH...WAIT A MINUTE....WE ALREADY HAVE ONE GOING ON IN IRAQ.

THE FREEDOM HIGHWAY IS PAVED WITH DEMOCRATIC JUDEO/CHRISTIAN IDEALS....and currently that highway is being constructed through the middle of Baghdad. Obviously THE FREEDOM HIGHWAY isn't working so well in Afghanistan because simply put....that is a hopeless cause.

Tribal conflicts in IRAQ are considered civilized compared to Afghanistan. Of course one needs to read between the lines to fully try and understand the Afghanistan people. And while reading between the lines it's important to understand how many people in that country don't read any lines.

I'm sure it's one of the main reasons that Bin Laden has chosen their mountains to hide in.....Fundamental Islamic Terrorism (FIT) can survive and thrive in areas where education is regarded as a secondary, or even thirdary, or maybe fourthdery...concept.

I would hope that violent behavior could totally be a natural sub-category of poorly educated societies.....BUT...

That's not exactly clear cut.

I note that Ultimate Fighting seems to have a large audience in America and that's just a spectator sport. I'm not going to talk about violent acts that are committed on a daily basis in this country....but I will stick to my guns and say that most violent acts are probably committed by people with lower educational skills.

When you extend that lack of education to countries than it's easy to understand why Fundamentalists of any organized religion are able to make inroads.

It seems that when comparing the Fundamentalists of various religions... that the Catholics have moved beyond their kick ass period and that the Muslims are still in that period.

Comparing KICK-ASS periods might be a good idea.

DEFINING GOALS AND DEFINING TECHNIQUES OF HOW AND WHY ONE NEEDS TO KICK ONE'S ASS TO JOIN A RELIGION IS IMPORTANT IN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE INSANITY OF JOINING A RELIGION THAT WANTS TO KICK SOMEONE'S ASS.

I truly believe that GOD doesn't want anybody kicking anybodies ass for any reason .....and especially for reasons that have anything to do with joining a church....

A CHURCH SHOULD BE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN GATHER TO HONOR AND LOVE GOD......

AS SHOULD A RELIGION

RELIGIONS NEED TO BE PUT ON TRIAL.....with highly educated legal minds handling the prosecution.

NOW THAT WOULD BE A GREAT REALITY SHOW.....and apparently a worldwide audience would number in the millions and millions.

Call Simon Fuller and Mark Burnett.......this is the next giant program!

Move over American Idol......Make room for....

"WORLD RELIGIONS ON TRIAL"

And it could be televised every freakin night until they figure out how to forgive previous kick ass periods and stop the current kick ass period.

NEW COMMANDMENT #12

STOP KICKING ASS BECAUSE SOMEONE DOESN'T AGREE WITH YOUR IDEA OF HOW GOD SHOULD BE LOVED.

JUST STOP!

and that means......EVERYBODY!

Michael Timothy McAlevey